Month: December 2005

methodolatry n: common form of academic idolatry; glorification of the god Method; boxing of knowledge into prefabricated fields, thereby hiding threads of connectedness, hindering New discoveries, preventing the raising of New Questions, erasing ideas that[…]

token torturer: a woman who (often unwittingly) pleases her masters by selling out her own kind, increasing the patriarchs’ pleasure by performing acts that are less than gentlemanly, thus obscuring the identity of the primary[…]

Foresight n: one of the parts (aspects) of Prudish Prudence: habit of Seeing beyond the limitations of phallotemporality and consciously participating in the Tidal Timing of Biophilic Creation; habit strengthening a Prude’s power to Realize[…]

Old Maid n: a Crone who has steadfastly resisted imprisonment in the Comatose State of matrimony: SURVIVOR, SPINSTER. From Websters’ First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language conjured by Mary Daly in cahoots with[…]

“You shall have [this guinea]…on condition that you help all properly qualified people, of whatever sex, class or colour, to enter your profession, and further on condition that in the practise of your profession you[…]

“Healthism, simply put, is an overemphasis on keeping healthy. Social critic Robert Crawford believes that many persons today (particularly, he notes, the more affluent) are too focused on staying healthy. He suggests that people have[…]

Code, Elemental 1: the vast Virgin potential in every Elemental being 2: the potential in each woman which she can choose to Discover and Realize; Elemental promise hidden by the phallocentric system/code of symbols that[…]

This is from Websters’ First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language conjured by Mary Daly in cahoots with Jane Caputi. Mary Daly’s one of those feminists everyone loves to hate, even lots of feminists,[…]

If equality means entitlement to an equal share of the profits of economic tyranny, it is irreconcilable with liberation. Freedom in an unfree world is merely licence to exploit. Lip-service to feminism in the developed[…]